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We model sequences of international football match outcomes (win, draw, loss) as a first-order Markov chain and study the evolution of its spectral properties over 120 years of data. Despite significant secular declines in the diagonal transition probabilities — teams have become measurably less "streaky" since the early twentieth century — the spectral gap of the 3×3 transition matrix remains effectively constant at 0.

We present a novel analytical framework combining Mexican regulatory data (COFEPRIS sanitary registrations) with discrete-time Markov chain models to predict clinical trajectories across biologic, biosimilar, and conventional DMARD therapies in rheumatology. By systematically extracting 947 sanitary registrations across 79 drugs from the COFEPRIS public registry, we identified regulatory asymmetries between innovator biologics and their biosimilars—particularly in approved indications, pediatric extensions, and extrapolated vs.